O'Brien v. Wilmington Provision Co.

Pennewill, C. J.,

delivering the opinion of the court:

There can be no doubt about the rules of pleading applicable to this case. They have been stated in many cases in this State and perhaps never better than by Judge Woolley in Campbell v. Walker, 1 Boyce 580, 76 A. 475, 476,1 in which he said, in part:

“ * * * That while the plaintiff is not required to make a detailed and minute statement of the circumstances of the cause of action, he must nevertheless set forth in his declaration the facts upon which he bases his action, with a particularity and certainty that will reasonably inform the…